Jazz New Orleans With Fred Kasten — September 27, 2013
Featuring music from Chick Corea, Ella Fitzgerald, Eddie Harris, Paquito d'Rivera, Susannah McCorkle, Tommy Flanagan, Dave Frishberg - and an extended conversation with Sonny Rollins...
View ArticleOctober 4, 2013 Jazz New Orleans with Fred Kasten
Featuring Jazz New Orleans Player of the Week Wess Anderson - plus Banu Gibson, Johnny Adams, Ray Brown, Tom McDermott, Dianne Reeves and Chick Corea...
View ArticleOctober 11, 2013 Jazz New Orleans with Fred Kasten
This week on Jazz New Orleans with Fred Kasten, we're featuring Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, Mel Tormé, Art Pepper, John Scofield, Dr. Billy Taylor, McCoy Tyner — and an extended conversation with the...
View ArticleOctober 25, 2013 Jazz New Orleans With Fred Kasten
This week's Jazz New Orleans, featuring Shirley Horn, Bobby McFerrin , Joe Henderson, Roy Hargrove , Al Grey, Jimmy McGriff , Cubanismo — and an extended conversation with Jazz New Orleans "Player of...
View ArticleNovember 15, 2013 Jazz New Orleans With Fred Kasten
This week Jazz New Orleans features Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Chick Corea , Tierney Sutton, Leroy Jones, Miles Davis, Art Tatum, Donald Harrison — and an extended conversation with our "Player...
View ArticleNovember 8, 2013 Jazz New Orleans With Fred Kasten
This week's Jazz New Orleans features Tom McDermott, Terence Blanchard, The Caribbean Jazz Project, Rene Marie, John McLaughlin, Karrin Allyson, Stan Getz , Kenny Barron, Roy Hargrove — and an extended...
View ArticleNOLA Life Stories: George Wein's Rocky Road To Jazz Fest
Jazz Fest creator George Wein was a pianist and professor of jazz studies at Boston University when he organized the Newport Jazz Festival in 1954. He scored another hit with the Newport Folk Festival...
View ArticleBob Dylan's Paintings Gathered For Exhibit At NOMA Coincides With Jazz Fest
The New Orleans Museum of Art is set to open a showing of paintings done by one of the world’s most famous singer-songwriters. It’s timed to coincide with the start of Jazz Fest.
View ArticleWhere Y'Eat: For Jazz Fest Food, Old Favorites Rule The Roost
The food served up around the Fair Grounds each year at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival isn’t typical event food. It is specifically Jazz Fest food. It rarely changes and as a result Jazz...
View ArticleSame As It Ever Was?: Scott Aiges On Jazz & Heritage & Change
Jazz Fest takes up so much of our collective consciousness in New Orleans that many may not know that the Festival’s nonprofit arm keeps the music on all year round. The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage...
View ArticleAll Things New Orleans: April 27, 2017
This week on All Things New Orleans , we're highlighting the woman behind the early production of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival; Allison Miner. Cultural anthropologist Helen Regis and...
View ArticleLouisiana Eats: Backstage Eats & Jazz Fest Treats
On this week’s show, we’re taking you behind the scenes of the Jazz & Heritage Festival! The amazing array of food is one of the many things that sets Jazz Fest apart from all other festivals. We...
View ArticleAfter Stormy Weather, Jazz Fest 2017 Ends On A Sunny Note
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival wrapped up Sunday. As WWNO's Jessica Rosgaard reports, the perfect weather THIS weekend made for a busy close, despite a rainy, slow opener.
View ArticleJazz Fest 2018 Contest Rules
CONTEST RULES: Contest Rules: Win Tickets to Jazz Fest 2018 Rules NO PURCHASE OR CONTRIBUTION NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. MAKING A CONTRIBUTION WILL NOT IMPROVE AN INDIVIDUAL’S CHANCE OF WINNING....
View ArticleGet In Where You Fit In: The Self-Made Entrepreneurs of Jazz Fest
Jazz Fest is almost here, along with the annual festivities that go on in the Fairgrounds neighborhood. While there are strict rules about what people can sell outside of the festival, there is a whole...
View ArticleAmerican Routes Shortcuts: Sonny Rollins
In celebration of the long running New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, we feature Sonny Rollins, who has performed at the festival various times since 1977. The master tenor saxophonist has been at...
View ArticleAll Things New Orleans: April 26, 2018
On this week's edition of All Things New Orleans , we'll chat with saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr. about Xavier University's Campus Jazz Festival and more. Then, the Data Center's Allison Plyer...
View ArticleAmerican Routes Shortcuts: Doug Kershaw and Steve Riley
Cajun musician Doug Kershaw was born in Tiel Ridge, Louisiana, 1936. He started playing fiddle at age five and gigged with his mom at a bar called the Bucket of Blood, near their coastal home. By his...
View ArticleAmerican Routes Shortcuts: Doug Kershaw and Steve Riley
Cajun musician Doug Kershaw was born in Tiel Ridge, Louisiana, 1936. He started playing fiddle at age five and gigged with his mom at a bar called the Bucket of Blood, near their coastal home. By his...
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